The suspensions were internally "direction of Ella" - that's Ella Irwin, Twitter's Trust and Safety head

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/15/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk/

Musk suspends journalists from Twitter, claims ‘assassination’ danger

Many of the journalists, including from The Washington Post and New York Times, had written about dramas surrounding billionaire Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.

The Washington Post
her background in fraud is extensive but content moderation is not fraud prevention
@ranjan I noted elsewhere that Twitter 2.0 is The Stanford Prison Experiment at scale. Ella Irwin is one of the guards.